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One of these days somebody holding too many beers inside is just going to say "#### it" and pull a Seinfeld

I don't think I've been to an Opening Day in Milwaukee (or a night at Summerfest) where I didn't see a man whizzing into either a garbage can or a sink. Or, a woman coming into the men's room because the lines were shorter.

here and i thought there were all these giant piss pit trough thingys in mens rooms. what, are all the guys refusing to stand next to another guy at a urinal because what if someone looks at his youknowwhat?

interesting that the mens room line is longer than the females room line. i thought men had much larger bladders until they get prostate

i have seen lines for the mens room at the Box, especially BITGOD when we used to have an actual baseball team and the place was full, but the lines were NEVER near that long and they moved fast.

i know that women bring their sons into the ladies room - often until the kid is 8 or 9, but what do single dads with a daughter do when daddy has to go? you can't take your daughter into a mens room unless she is too young to walk

i know that women bring their sons into the ladies room - often until the kid is 8 or 9, but what do single dads with a daughter do when daddy has to go? you can't take your daughter into a mens room unless she is too young to walk

I took my daughters into the mens room until they were in kindergarden. After that, I'd send them to the ladies room while standing outside obsessively watching the doors hoping no one thought I was a really warped pervert.

One of these days somebody holding too many beers inside is just going to say "#### it" and pull a Seinfeld.

One of these days? I remember seeing drunks piss on the men's room floor at old Sportsman's Park when I was 10 years old. That was one place for sure that you didn't want to wear sandals.

Griffith Stadium had only three men's rooms on the lower level, two of which weren't much bigger than one of Mitt Romney's guest bathrooms. On a cold December day during a Redskins' sellout, the main loo's combination of cigar smoke, cigar butts, half-empty popcorn containers, misdirected streams of piss, and steam heat from the radiators made for a smell that only a great novelist could possibly describe. And yes, there were plenty of guys pissing in the sink, too. I don't remember whether or not the lines there were quite as long as that picture above in Comerica, but I do know that you had to rush to it from your seat to be able to make it back in time for the second half kickoff.

depends on venue. I take my almost 4 yr old to men's rooms if the place is small. We were recently at a pub and grill place with a separate dining area and I took her to her first real 'men's room.' She was disgusted.
We try to have Mommy do it at larger venues/stadiums, etc, though most new parks have 'family bathrooms' which makes this easier.

I work at the CoPa and while walking past that long line last night a guy came up to us, pulled up his pant leg, and showed us an ugly scar from a long ago accident. He wanted to be put at the front of the line due to this. We suggested he find the line of port-a-potties they brought in for the postseason, which had much shorter lines.

It was raining last night, which makes me wonder if one of the other bathrooms was closed due to flooding (I had a very enlightening conversation with a janitor at Comerica Park in '09 about the bathrooms having flooding issues on nights with heavy rains--this was the day after a rain-delayed (and then made official after midnight) night game.)

i know that women bring their sons into the ladies room - often until the kid is 8 or 9, but what do single dads with a daughter do when daddy has to go? you can't take your daughter into a mens room unless she is too young to walk

HAve them wait by the security guard desk in the museum, which is usually near a rest room. Or, carry them and have them close their eyes, use a stall. Necessity is the mother.

here and i thought there were all these giant piss pit trough thingys in mens rooms. what, are all the guys refusing to stand next to another guy at a urinal because what if someone looks at his youknowwhat?

Once I chose the middle of three very long lines in a crowded men's room. When I finally got to the front I found that, while there was a urinal on both my right and left, in front of me was just a very wet spot on the wall.

Once I chose the middle of three very long lines in a crowded men's room. When I finally got to the front I found that, while there was a urinal on both my right and left, in front of me was just a very wet spot on the wall.

Didn't they get caught whizzing in a parking garage? I see guys bringing their draft beer into the john and resting it on the urinal when they piss. That grosses me out and I am not easily grossed out. What do you guys think?

Didn't they get caught whizzing in a parking garage? I see guys bringing their draft beer into the john and resting it on the urinal when they piss. That grosses me out and I am not easily grossed out. What do you guys think?

I'm with you. Chase the beer and go take your leak. An open beverage container in those men's rooms...no ####### way.

A few years ago the city of Boston had a water main break and tap water was not drinkable. I went to Fenway and all the men's rooms had signs saying not to drink out of the faucets or the toilets. Never has there been a less necessary instruction anywhere.

When my daughter is with me I usually just wait outside the family restroom while she does her business. When I do mine she either waits with a security guard or stands in the corner looking away from me.

I don't think I've been to an Opening Day in Milwaukee (or a night at Summerfest) where I didn't see a man whizzing into either a garbage can or a sink. Or, a woman coming into the men's room because the lines were shorter.

Haha, definitely. I remember once at Summerfest, I was in the (disgusting) bathroom when three women came in and saw that the men's room was fairly crowded. Rather than wait for a stall or go back out to the women's line, they squatted in a corner (over a pile of cups and paper towels and other trash) and proceeded to piss. Nobody else in the bathroom appeared to think this was unusual.

Yeah, that line is nothing compared to the...well...I can't really call it a line. More like the mass of humanity slowly funneling into the men's room at Wrigley at half-time of the Illinois vs. Northwestern football game played there a couple years ago. Left at the tail end of the first half. Got back to my seat about five minutes into the third quarter. The restrooms at Wrigley were not designed for a sport with a half-time.

Longest lines I have seen is at Nyeland Stadium at Tennessee. Over 100,000 people trying to pee at halftime. Of course lately with the way UT has played, you just have to wait until the 3rd quarter when the orange faithful have fled from their latest debacle.

Didn't they get caught whizzing in a parking garage? I see guys bringing their draft beer into the john and resting it on the urinal when they piss. That grosses me out and I am not easily grossed out. What do you guys think?

here and i thought there were all these giant piss pit trough thingys in mens rooms. what, are all the guys refusing to stand next to another guy at a urinal because what if someone looks at his youknowwhat?

Military teaches that out of you. In bootcamp you have 80 guys using 5 urinals and less than 5 minutes.... the first time you use the urinals in bootcamp, everyone is waiting patiently for the next guy and only about 1/3rd get to go before being rushed back outside...after that, it's three per urinal. It's a biological function, you learn to get over it.

Didn't they get caught whizzing in a parking garage? I see guys bringing their draft beer into the john and resting it on the urinal when they piss. That grosses me out and I am not easily grossed out. What do you guys think?

In the early days of AT&T Park I was in a line like this once when I had a lot of beers needing release. It got to where there was just no way I was gonna make it so I left the line in search of some dark corner. I ended up kinda underneath the bleachers where there was a bathroom that almost nobody was using. Wall-to-wall open urinals. Still one of the happiest moments of my life.

I might have the bathroom's location wrong, although I don't think so. But the main thrust of the story is all correct. A mirage in the desert, only real.

In the early days of AT&T Park I was in a line like this once when I had a lot of beers needing release. It got to where there was just no way I was gonna make it so I left the line in search of some dark corner. I ended up kinda underneath the bleachers where there was a bathroom that almost nobody was using. Wall-to-wall open urinals. Still one of the happiest moments of my life.

Sounds a bit like that single block of unregulated street parking within a 15 minute walk of Nationals Park.

i know that women bring their sons into the ladies room - often until the kid is 8 or 9, but what do single dads with a daughter do when daddy has to go? you can't take your daughter into a mens room unless she is too young to walk

Safeco has some "Family" bathrooms, just a single hole provate room for this purpose.

The first time I saw a trough urinal was as a wee lad at Fenway Park. I didn't know what to do.

In the early days of AT&T Park I was in a line like this once when I had a lot of beers needing release. It got to where there was just no way I was gonna make it so I left the line in search of some dark corner. I ended up kinda underneath the bleachers where there was a bathroom that almost nobody was using. Wall-to-wall open urinals. Still one of the happiest moments of my life.

Indeed, the bathrooms (and concessions) under the bleachers generally have much shorter lines. But don't tell anybody!

i know that women bring their sons into the ladies room - often until the kid is 8 or 9, but what do single dads with a daughter do when daddy has to go? you can't take your daughter into a mens room unless she is too young to walk

Safeco has some "Family" bathrooms, just a single hole private room for this purpose.

- so you take your daughter into the bathroom while YOU pee?

every time i read about troughs it makes me glad i'm female

i can't yell at men for holding beer in one hand and youknowwhat in the other because in the ladies room, ALL THE TIME there are females talking on the phone when they are in the stall using it. no kidding.

I assume people only do that if no one else is around to watch the kid outside. I don't have any kids but I have a much younger brother and when I used to take him places when he was young, I definitely felt a sense of panic if I lost sight of him for a second. I wouldn't have left him out on a concourse unattended. But I'm the pessimistic type.

I take my daughters everywhere -- ballgames, museums, walks through Chinatown, I love taking them out for jaunts around town. For the last few years they've been using the ladies room on their own, but before that, I just took them into the mens room. No big deal. When they were really small, I took them to a stall myself. When they were a bit older, I waited outside the stall and did my business while they washed their hands.

All they ever saw were men facing away from them at urinals, standing in line for urinals or washing their hands. I've never seen a public mens room that was a wee wee waving festival that would damage little girls' psyches.

Of course I never took them anyplace rowdy, like The Wrigley bleachers or CBGB, where the odds of bathroom depravity were high, but that's just common sense. Really, it was never a big deal at all.

And troughs are special. When I finally rebuild my garage into the Awesome Man Cave of my dreams, the bathroom will have a trough, price be damned.

not certain how much this costs, not counting other plumbing related parts, but a stainless steel urinal costs about $2000-$2500 bucks.
I only know this because I remember charging a guy once and one of his bad deeds was destroying a stainless steel urinal at a tavern, and the cost was in that range.